Ken Raeburn <raeb...@raeburn.org> writes: > However, they're testing for a POSIX 2008 requirement that C99 and > POSIX 2004 implementations need not meet, namely that NULL be of type > "void *" instead of any null pointer constant (e.g., "0"). I think > requiring POSIX 2008 support for Guile and anything that builds on it > seems like a bad idea. I haven't looked at the libunistring code to > see why it might be relevant, but it seems like a pretty gratuitous > imposition to me. The only benefit of it I can see is that a variadic > function can then take NULL as an argument without casting to char*; > is that worth refusing to support other systems?
I didn't know it was a POSIX 2008 requirement. Then indeed, we should discuss this with the libunistring folks. Thanks, Ludo'.
